About Sajda Mughal

Sajda Mughal, OBE, is Director of the JAN
Trust which educates, engages and empowers grass roots
disadvantaged women and girls. She develops and delivers
programmes locally, nationally and internationally focusing on issues such as
women’s’ rights, education, radicalisation, integration, citizenship and community cohesion.
Sajda has firsthand experience as a victim of terrorism; she is the only known
Muslim survivor of the atrocious London terror attack on 7 July 2005.

Constitutional conventions: best practice

Less than 4% of Muslim mothers
who attended a programme in Britain to equip them with basic IT skills knew
who ISIS were. Education is key to enabling them to prevent the
online radicalisation of their children.

As the GIRL
Summit opens in London today, Sajda Mughal argues that the failure to
include working with perpetrators and changing mindsets in
affected communities on the agenda, means that the
root of the problem will not be addressed.

Plans by the government to criminalise forced marriage in the UK will put women and girls at even greater risk of violence. Forced marriages can only be tackled from within and by the community, with sufficient resources to support this work, says Sajda Mughal